[1] Late in life Jones's grandfather had bought an estate at Lisselan, County Cork, adjoining the public road from Clonakilty to Bandon.
He engaged someone to teach his tenants how to grow turnips and clover, he improved the roads, reclaimed more than 400 acres, and consolidated the farms.
[1] In the severe winter of 1879 Jones gave increased employment to neighbouring labourers, but opposed the establishment of public relief works, and when the Land League agitation began he was attacked as an unjust and rack-renting landlord.
His eldest son, William Francis Bence-Jones, educated at Rugby School and Exeter College, Oxford (B.A.
in 1878), and called to the bar at the Inner Temple on 26 January 1883, died on 19 November of the same year, and Jones's second son, Reginald, succeeded to the estate.